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J. A. CAMPBELL. BARREL HEAD WEDGE.

N0. 439,9Z8. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. 1

JAMES A. CAMPBELL, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF TWO- THIRDS TO GEORGE P. HARRISON AND PIERRE MICHEL, OF SAME PLACE.

BARREL-HEAD WEDGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,928, dated November 4, 1890. Application filed April 23, 1890. Serial No. 349,083. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES A. CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Barrel-Head Wedges, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements in barrel-heads; and it consists in a tighteningwedge therefor, formed as herein described.

It further consists in the combination of parts herein described.

Figure 1 represents a top view of a barrelhead, showing the wedge in operative position. Fig. 2 represents a perspective view of the wedge detached from the sections of the head. Fig. 3 represents perspective views of the separate parts of the wedge. Fig. 4 represents an end view of the smaller part of the wedge.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a barrel-head consisting of the two sections B 'B, and C the tightening-wedge, the latter being of two parts D and E, secured together when in place bya screw F. The wedge is of tapering form and beveled at its outer ends, and may be formed from a single piece of material, preferably wood, cut in two, so as to have inclined contact-faces G and H at the inner ends, respectively, of the said parts, the

face H of the part E being above that of the face G. On both sides and at the upper edges thereof of the parts D and E are flanges J, and on the lower edges of the sides of the part D, which is of greater length than the part E, are flanges K, while the said part E has no lower flange, but is inclined or cut away, as at L, on its lower edges, so as to more easily permit the entrance of the said part between the sections B B.

The manner of using the wedge thus described is as follows: The sections B B having been properly inserted in the barrel with the longer part D of the wedge between them,

the bevel portion of said part D is driven into the croze of the barrel, and the partE is then inserted, its inclined under face H moving on the face G of the part D. Owing to the cutaway portion L on its sides, the part E is readily introduced between the sections, and as it is forced therein and its beveled end into the croze the head is secured in place. When the head is sufiiciently tightened, the screw F is passed through the contact ends of the parts D and E, thus binding them together and in place.

By using the shorter part E as the final tightening wedge the greater part of the wedge or part D is in contact with the sections of the head during the final tightening thereof.

The matter herein relating to a barrel-head wedge formed of two tapering parts, one of which has an upper and a lower flange on each of its sides and the other part having a sin gle flange on each side, is not claimed herein, being described, shown, and claimed in application by me for Letters Patent made December 23, 1890, and bearing Serial No. 334,598.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A barrel-head wedge consisting of two sections of unequal length, the longer having flanges on the upper and lower edges of each of its sides, and the shorter having a flange on the upper edge and a cut-away or incline on the lower edge of each of its sides, substantially as described.

2. A barrel-head wedge consisting of two parts of unequal lengths, the longer part havinga flange on the upper edge of each of its sides and an inclined upper face at its inner end, and the shorter part having an inclined under face at its inner end, a flange at the upper edges of each of its sides, and an inclined portion at the lower edge of said sides, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

3. A barrel-head wedge consisting of the longer part D, with one end beveled and the parts being combined substantially as deother end having an inclined upper face and "scribed.

provided with flanges on the upper and lower edges of its sides, the shorter part E with JAMEb CAMPBELL 5 beveled outer end, inclined under face at the Witnesses:

inner end, and an inclined lower edge, and a M. T. DUCROS,

screw passing through the contact ends, said I J. ALECK. 

